[MLUG] NFS all_squash

[hendrik at topoi.pooq.com]

On Tue, Dec 30, 2008 at 05:08:32PM -0500, Stefan Monnier wrote:
> > I'm in the process of setting up and NFS server.  Simple enough, except 
> > the all_squash isn't working. :-(
> [...]
> > # ls -l
> > -rw-rw-r--    1 10028 5011    497 2008-12-29 17:00 mirror.txt
> > -rw-rw-r--    1 10001 5011    401 2008-02-08 10:50 mirror.txt.bak
> 
> You misunderstand all_squash: it does not affect the uid/gid info sent
> over from the server.  It only affects the uid/gid info sent from the
> client to the server (i.e. the server decides to override the uid/gid
> data sent by the client).

Is there any way of specifying a list of (uid, uid) pairs to indicate 
how translation of uids is done between systems?  If there is, I haven't 
found it.

-- hendrik